in wishing that people should ...

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...use 'lie' and 'lying' instead of 'lay' and 'laying'? If someone says, "I'm laying in bed", I want to ask him / her, "How many eggs are you planning?"

I lie in bed
I'm lying in bed
I lay in bed yesterday
I laid our dog to rest
I had lain in bed for ages

I lie to friends to get out of a date
I was lying to friends to get out of a date
I lied yesterday
I had lied to friends to get out of a date

Are people not taught any more?

I always use it correctly, but I can't say it annoys me. I know someone who shouts "different from " at the TV. As if they can hear him.

Round here they say 'led in bed'. It makes me twitch. YANBU

YANBU.

And this is why I will never buy a bed from Layezee...

Ooh - I do the 'different from' shout! And I hate it when people say 'less' when they mean 'fewer'. DP did all these things, but has cottoned on to fewer being correct in situations where he would have said less in the past.

I think 'lay' is sometimes a dialect thing too. YADNBU. Snow Patrol's 'Chasing Cars' really irritates me because of it's use of 'lay'.

But your title is all wrong too!

In wishing - I wish
People should - people would

Fnar fnar fnar

Different from, than, to, are all correct.

If someone says I laid in bed the answer is Who with and was it a good lay?

Glass houses.

Would not should

Just saying

Luis The question was AIBU... ...in wishing...

Andrew In the UK, the correct way is 'different from'. Americanese is 'different than'. 'To is relevant in 'similar to'.

I'll add 'compare with' here as well. It's not 'compare to'.

I'll acquiesce to the 'would' not 'should'. I'll put that down to a typo .

Am I being unreasonable in wishing...

Nope

Am I being unreasonable to wish is better though

I quite like the idea of laying eggs though.